the economic system falter in Europe we are beginning to see some erosion of these policies. Britain is currently facing the issue:
Britain's National Health Service is significantly scaling back its National Programme for IT, a decade-old initiative to implement electronic health records across the nation of about 60 million.
Changes in the program come after spending about $10 billion on the $18.6 billion initiative. The program has been harshly criticized as heavy-handed and even dictatorial: A government agency selected teams--run by prime contractors without core competencies in health care--to implement government-selected EHR products in five regions across the country. The contractors rarely delivered products or services on a timely or quality basis, some contractors were fired and providers rebelled.
On Sept. 22, the National Health Service announced the obvious: "In a modernized NHS, which puts patients and clinicians in the driving seat for achieving health outcomes amongst the best in the world, it is no longer appropriate for a centralized authority to make decisions on behalf of local organisations."
Now, providers may select their own EHR products and vendors, and the government will work with a technology trade association "to explore ways to stimulate a marketplace that will no longer exclude small and medium sized companies for participating in significant government healthcare projects," according to NHS.
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http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/national-health-service-britain-ehr-43245-1.html
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